The Guardian published an analysis of court records this weekend. Its analysis of over more than a million court records found that offenders from ethnic minorities were more likely than their white counterparts to be sentenced to prison for certain categories of crime such as driving offences, possession of a weapon and drugs possession.

The situation has been like this for a long long long time, and nothing is changing. The obvious question is - what are the Government (the Ministry of Justice and the Youth Justice Board etc) doing about it?

I want to make it clear that I am NOT criticising the current Coalition Government - this has been the position for a long long long time, including under New Labour.